We are excited to finally share the results from our independent evaluation! 🎉 Click the link to learn more about the Festival's positive impact and see the full report. Thanks to FRY Creative for their hard work and to everyone who made F23 possible 💜birminghamfestival23.co.uk/full-evaluatio…

We are thrilled to be shortlisted for two awards along with our producing partner Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces: Access All Areas Legacy Award and NOEA ⚪ Regional Event of the Year Award! This wouldn't be possible without all the F23 artists, partners, volunteers and audiences, so THANK YOU!

Our friends at More Than A Moment and F23 Artist EZL are hosting the Beautiful Futures Festival on Oct 19-21 at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Come by to celebrate solidarity, justice, and innovation and honor the creativity of Black artists in the West Midlands. See you there! 🌟

9 days, 10 nights, hundreds of performers, and you.

Follow the link ow.ly/2lBc50Pxhck for our full festival wrap-up including an amazing selection of photos from across the week. Did you join us? Reply with a 🤩 so we can see who got involved!

#BirminghamFestival23

What an incredible week we had – it was so great to showcase the energy and diversity of #Birmingham once again, a year on from the Common Wealth Games.

A huge thank you to our fantastic visitors, volunteers and partners who all brought the festival to life!

Cheers to the final day of BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL 23!

A huge thanks to our incredible performers yesterday – we danced, partied, celebrated and brought Birmingham Festival 23 to a close in the best way we know how!

See you soon #Birmingham !

👏Thought provoking, informative and inspiring work by Elizabeth Lawal EZL today with Empires, Pioneers and New Radicals as part of BirminghamFestival23 Learnt a lot about our cities past and have hope for the future! #NationalLottery supported ❤️🤞

We're giving you another chance to see What If? a new street musical by Girl Grind UK @vocalnova Eloquent Dance Company which was sadly cut short earlier this week. The energy they brought before was electric so you won't want to miss this. On at 2pm today (STC). #BirminghamFestival23

Our fantastic volunteers, supported by our Partners United By 2022 have been on hand throughout the Festival to help our visitors and keep the Commonwealth Games spirit alive – a huge thank you!

#Birmingham you brought the beats, the vibes and the absolute good times yesterday! Here's to our FINAL festival day - stay all day to dance or chill, and let the lyrics carry you away… See you this afternoon! #Birmingham Festival23

Let’s go on a tour of #BirminghamFestival23 with our team of Audio Describers from Talking Theatre who have been working throughout to help make the festival #accessible for all. #AudioDescription #Access #Access ibility m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Fantastic carnival vibes BirminghamFestival23 loving all the energetic performances by members of ACE.

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Crossing fingers for BirminghamFestival23 and weather. Seems to be easing off and hope they have fab penultimate day.

Do we have a show for YOU..?! From 6pm the bar will be open, we’ll have Boxout DJs & on the main stage MAST QALANDAR DANCEHALL MASHUP from Artistic Associate Mukhtar Dar and Kalaboration Arts. Sufi melodies, reggae rhythms, vibrant Afrobeat and lyrical English folk music.

All the Friday feels watching this back - what another incredible day!

Get set for carnival time! From Samba beats, carnival costumes and fire DJs, today is bringing the beats, vibes and good times to Birmingham.

Who is joining us today? Only two more days left to go!

☔️ ANNOUNCEMENT ☔️

Feel the energy of the Caribbean with ACE dance and music and witness a collage of colour, dance and pulsating rhythms of Trinidad!

Taking place from 4pm but due to the expected rain, please keep an eye on socials for any updates to the schedule today!